Mechanical – College of Engineering

Andrik Puentes strives to make meaningful impacts in engineering field

Andrik Puentes’ journey to graduation at the University of Rhode Island has been an extraordinary blend of academic rigor and leadership that significantly shaped his path to become an engineer. What distinguished the College of Engineering at URI and solidified his decision to attend were its state-of-the-art facilities and a strong emphasis on research and […]

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Commencement 2024!

The University will honor graduates May 18th, in formal ceremonies at the Ryan Center. The ceremonies will recognize both undergraduate and graduate degree candidates from the respective colleges.

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URI Chemical Engineering Professor Granted NSF CAREER Award

Story by Krysta Murray Ryan Poling-Skutvik, assistant chemical engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI), was granted a 5-year $589,933 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research and education activities for “Telechelic Triblock Copolymers As a Platform to Design Functional Colloidal Gels.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program […]

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e-Week 2024! Join Us!

e-Week is a week-long series of events dedicated to highlighting the incredible achievements and innovations of our engineering students. Highlights include: International Engineering Program block party, inspiring talks, research showcase, student organizations recognition night, employer networking opportunities, capstone design showcase, college picnic, and more! This will be a unique opportunity to come together, celebrate our […]

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Manufacturing Pioneer and URI Professor Geoffrey Boothroyd Passes Away

Professor Geoffrey Boothroyd, internationally renowned for breakthrough research in design for manufacturing assembly (DFMA), passed away peacefully on January 3 at the age of 91. The British educator joined University of Rhode Island’s (URI) then mechanical and industrial manufacturing engineering department in 1985. He was brought on to head the Advanced Manufacturing Institute, coordinating the […]

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Cross-Disciplinary URI Team Forms Neuro-Learning Center

A URI team featuring Engineering Professor Kunal Mankodiya will establish a Neuro-Learning Center that will include cutting-edge equipment to study the relationship between brain activity and behavior, brain mapping, and neuroplasticity.

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A Message From Dean Marchese, December 2023

Dear URI Engineering Community: As we enter the home stretch of another busy and exciting semester, and head toward the holiday season, it is an appropriate time to pause and give thanks to the many blessings that have been bestowed upon our community. As Dean of Engineering, I am thankful for (and indebted to) the […]

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Student Led Team Receives Artificial Intelligence Award

A URI graduate student’s paper was recently awarded “Best Student Paper Finalist” for the 2023 Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics conference. Emadodin Jandaghi and Xiaotian Chen’s work was overseen by Associate Professor and Advisor Chengzhi Yuan. As the name suggests, soft robotics involves using flexible materials in an increasingly wide variety of uses, from medical applications to […]

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COE Welcomes New Faculty

Mehrshad Amini, Assistant Professor, CVE/OCE Dr. Mehrshad Amini will join the University of Rhode Island in Fall 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Ocean Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 2021. […]

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URI Engineering Researchers Awarded $750k Grant on Floating Wind Turbines

The Biden administration has set a goal of deploying enough offshore wind turbines to produce 30 gigawatts—enough to power tens of millions of homes—by 2035. Key to that strategy is the development of floating wind turbines that can be built in vast areas of deeper water.

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URI College of Engineering Awarded $1.14 Million to Attract Under Represented Students

University of Rhode Island Associate Professor Samantha Meenach is the recipient of a federal grant that will help students from underrepresented groups pursue studies in undergraduate bioengineering and bioscience research programs and eventually apply to graduate school in these disciplines.

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IEP Student Prints Her Career Path

Mention the term 3D printing to the average person, and it’s fair to say many would think of a smallish, home use machine programmed to create dragons or orcs like those from fantasy gameplay. However, mention it to mechanical engineering major Sofia Lanzi and the term means much, much more. It means a year of […]

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Meet Caroline Dowling, URI Engineer headed to WPI

Caroline Dowling is a Senior Mechanical Engineering student headed to WPI for her Ph.D. While at URI she was did her Capstone Design program for NASA, was heavily-involved with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

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Record Number of Students Receive Black Scholar Award

Engineering Students Receive Black Excellent Award

Thirty-four students received Black Scholar and Onyx Society awards recently, said Dr. Chris Hunter, interim Dean of University College and chair of the event. Hunter says the awards recognize a blend of academic scholarship as well as community service. “It’s amazing to see what students do to contribute to the University of Rhode Island community […]

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Professor Arun Shukla Awarded ASME Drucker Medal

By Hugh Markey For the past 42 years, Prof. Arun Shukla has been a part of the URI mechanical, industrial, and systems engineering department, supervising over a hundred graduate students, conducting research, and making substantial contributions to the engineering community. Those efforts were recently recognized with the awarding of the Daniel C. Drucker Medal, given […]

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Student Spotlight: Alexandra Barbato

By Kat Billo ’25 Tell us a little about yourself. “My name is Alex Barbato and I am from Utica, NY. I am a senior Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) major.” Why Engineering? “I chose engineering because I can’t handle blood, but I love math and science. I am naturally “systems” minded and am constantly […]

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Dragsters, Animatronics Featured in Tech Competition

North Kingstown schools had a great day at a recent Technology Student Association (TSA) competition held at URI’s College of Engineering as part of their spring conference. The event drew some 200 students and judges from schools across the state. Shannon Donovan, a teacher at Wickford Middle School and their state advisor to the TSA […]

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Ash Giri Published in Nature

Ash Giri in lab

Of all of the honors in science and engineering, being published in the journal Nature is at the top of the list. Congratulations to URI Engineering assistant professor Ash Giri and his student C.J. Dionne on their recent publication. Ash’s research is related to nanoscale thermal transport, energy conversion and storage, nano mechanics, condensed matter […]

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Celebrating the Legacy of Frank M. White

Frank White chalkboard

A couple of months before the Frank M. White legacy panel was unveiled in Bliss Hall in November, the impact the former engineering professor had was represented in a collection of testimonials, some of which were published in the journal Physics of Fluids.

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Never a Dull Day for College of Engineering’s Michael Platek

Michael Platek

As an electrical materials research engineer, there’s no such thing as a typical day for Michael Platek. Among many other responsibilities, Platek makes sure some of the most sophisticated and expensive research equipment at URI works properly.

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Professor Nassersharif Discusses Nuclear Fusion Discovery

Bahram Nassersharif

URI Professor Bahram Nassersharif discusses the U.S. Department of Energy’s announcement that fusion ignition has been achieved. Last year, Nassersharif’s students worked with NASA on a project involving nuclear thermal propulsion.

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NUWC Comes to URI College of Engineering to Meet and Interview Students

NUWC

Hiring personnel and engineers from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWC) visited the URI College of Engineering recently to interview students and share information about the type of work conducted at NUWC.

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URI VOTES Using Engineering Tools to Support Democracy

URI VOTES in Atlanta

Leading up to this year’s Election Day results, University of Rhode Island engineering professor Gretchen Macht and her team were thinking about how the votes would tally — but not for the reasons you might think.

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Vic Ricci Receives URI Distinguished Achievement Award

Vittorio “Vic” Ricci, who has worked for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) for more than 37 years, received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Rhode Island.

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Engineering & Technology Career Fair Returns to the Ryan Center

2022 URI Engineering Career Fair

For the first time since 2019, the URI Engineering & Technology Career Fair was held as an in-person event at the Ryan Center. More than 90 employers and 667 URI students attended the event.

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